I assumed they were saying he chickened out of today’s deadline to open the strait. Which doesn’t make sense because Iran agreed to that specific demand. I did not consider that maybe they were calling him a coward for not doubling down and continuing the war.

Sure I guess you can call him a coward for not doubling down and not technically be wrong. Wouldn’t occur to me to do that though.

Sorry I thought “trump is a coward for not doubling down and doing a ground invasion” was too stupid of a position to take. I assumed they were saying he chickened out of today’s deadline to open the strait.

consider at least reading the headline of the post you’re commenting on

*“agrees” heavily implies two parties. CNN is not such a clickbait rag that they would have framed it like that with a looming deadline less than 2 hours away if it was just trump saying some shit unilaterally.

Ok, it’ll make sense to say XD TACO if they reneg and Trump doesn’t follow through. But they’ve agreed to open the strait or there is no ceasefire agreement.

The demand was open the strait or get bombed, they agreed to open the strait as a condition of the ceasefire.

This is like getting mugged, handing over your wallet, and then saying ‘hah, I knew you were too much of a coward to stab me.’

I know you guys really love your twee little catchphrase but how did he chicken out when his demands were met? Iran are the ones who folded, at least for now.

**oh nevermind, Iran is saying he agreed to their 10 point plan. If that’s true then lmao, the whole civilization ending thing was probably staged to let him save some face.

***if it’s not in reference specifically to today’s deadline to open the strait then the subtext of saying TACO here is that you’re calling him a coward for not continuing the war. weird take but ok.

It’s not bitcoin. It’s a real material that you can use for stuff.

Yeah there’s no chance that can run outlook. No wonder.

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I completely stonewalled the comcast retention stuff and I think I cut the entire call down to 5 minutes once I had someone on the line. I almost felt bad because she was clearly new and had a trainer with her. I just kept saying ‘just cancel the service’ every attempt to ask me something was met with ‘have you cancelled the service yet’

Lady I have anxiety about phone calls, I am not happy I have to make one. If I have to play this conversation through in my head 100 times then we’re following one of the scripts I have ready, not comcast’s.

Since like half of the comments are saying this was racist can anyone explain how?

Genuinely what the fuck are you guys on about. I would understand if she was an ethnically Japanese leader/diplomat from Brazil or something but what. So obsessed with race that you forgot Japan is a country?

It’s a stupid deflection but it’s not racist. The thought process is pretty obvious ‘Why didn’t you tell Japan before the attack’ -> ‘To keep the element of surprise’ uhh Japan + Surprise attack -> ‘Who know’s better than Japan about the value of stealth for a surprise attack, like pearl harbor’.

He just doesn’t even have the capacity to coherently make the bad comparison. He also completely whiffed the cadence of the joke he was trying to make causing it to come out even weirder. It’s a brain in decline trying to fall in to patterns that it used to be able to somewhat execute on but is now just grasping at straws.

*thing bad, so anything negative about thing must be correct and must not be questioned. I hate lemmy sometimes.

Like half way through trumps first term I thought people would stop taking everything he says extremely literally but here we still are. People are out here thinking he’s so far gone that he literally thinks he was president during pearl harbor and that his counterpart was running Japan. He has dementia but come on, you have to encounter reality deeper than just reading headlines and jerking yourself off with them.

This is just how he talks and has talked. He just made a stupid comparison while trying to deflect a question.

‘Oh you don’t want the extinction of humanity through global nuclear war? Why do you support the invasion of Taiwan’ how is there even 1 other person dumb enough to upvote this.

Even a non-nuclear war with china is a terrible idea. They have 1.4 billion people and are the global manufacturing hub. If for some reason the war stayed non-nuclear the US would still be completely screwed if the war didn’t end in the first month.

What does a successful intervention look like here. “stand there and let us bomb you, you aren’t allowed to strike back at us with ICBMs because that would be unfair. We only wanted to fight you in this theater of war where we don’t have anything at risk beyond our navy.” Ludicrous. The idea that the US should intervene is so obviously born out of decades of US imperialism¹. You’ve gotten so comfortable with the idea of attacking functionally defenseless countries that you’ve forgotten that some countries can fight back.

If you think the US should intervene to defend Taiwan do you also think China should intervene in the current war to defend Iran?

1. or you bought in to the decade+ of very obviously manufactured consent but how much of a rube can you be.

Any president who would have intervened is a moron. MAD didn’t go away just because the soviet union fell, nukes still exist.

Why not say 99% if you’re just pulling a number out of your ass.

and all the over production that ends up in landfills

Overproducing food is fundamentally good and there is not that much overproduction of other goods. Clothing sure but that is not a massive percent of global labor.

If socialism is that much more efficient than capitalism why is every socialist country not absolutely flourishing with 1 socialist worker reaping the same benefits as almost 7 capitalist workers?

(Btw I spent yesterday testing sewage samples and I’d do it for free if I didn’t need money to survive so miss me with any ‘how would we convince people to do gross work’ bullshit)

if ‘people will work for the joy of work’ was a reliable way to run an economy wouldn’t you see capitalists who aren’t reliant on wage labor choosing to work? You don’t because economies function by the norm not the exception and most people would rather relax and maybe make art than voluntarily do a shitty job that has an abstract benefit to society.

I used to use mpc-hc so I feel you, but I did just check their site and it literally has a banner saying “MPC-HC is not under development since 2017. Please switch to something else.” mpv is pretty good.

music bee is a bit trickier. There are roughly 5000 music players for linux and they all seem to have every feature you want except for one. Sayonara came the closest for me, I haven’t used it recently so maybe its better now but all I found it lacking was some smart playlist stuff.

I don’t know what sort of wastewater people were imagining. It’s a datacenter, it’s not like it’s some crazy industrial process with chemical waste. They’re not grinding servers up in a blender and dumping it down the drain.

85% vs 50% is a massive difference. It would be the difference between a 20 hour work week and a 6 hour work week.